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- This invention relates to a system for performing an assay of a biological cell sample, and more particularly, for providing an automated method and arrangement of measuring attributes of the cells of the sample and classifying sampled cells in accordance with the measured attributes.
- the diagnosis/prognosis of a possible cancer typically includes the removal of a cell sample, such as a tissue mass, from the patient.
- a cell sample such as a tissue mass
- confirmation of the diagnosis with a histological examination of the cell sample removed from the patient is necessary.
- the histological examination entails cell staining procedures which allow the morphological features of the cells to be seen relatively easily in a light microscope.
- a pathologist after having examined the stained cell sample, makes a qualitative determination of the state of the tissue and reaches a conclusion regarding the prognosis for the patient. While this diagnostic method has a long history, it is somewhat lacking in scientific rigor since it is heavily reliant on the subjective judgment of the pathologist and it is extremely time consuming.
- the optical evaluation of cell samples, and particularly those taken from tissue sections, is a difficult procedure.
- the optical field presented to an evaluator is a disordered collection of cell objects, some on top of one another and others being only fragments of whole cell objects.
- the optical field shows only boundaries of two-dimensional optical entities filled with varying levels of contrast.
- Some of the overlapped cell objects appear to be large and/or dense single cell objects and some of the cell object fragments appear to have sufficient size to be whole cell objects.
- the evaluator's difficult and time-consuming task is the selection of single whole cell objects which can accurately represent the cell sample and the classification of those selected objects into categories which classification aids in the final diagnosis/prognosis.
- the automatic selection and classification of cell objects speeds analysis and reduces the tedium of the operator.
- pre-selection and classification by the apparatus permits the operator to concentrate his or her efforts on the difficult and subtle analysis of the preselected cell objects which are likely to be representative of the sample.
- the evaluation of cell objects and their accurate reporting is at its most difficult when a sample is taken from a tissue section.
- the act of slicing the tissue section also slices and distorts the cell objects which are to be observed and analyzed.
- the viewed field of a tissue section sample contains many small cell object fragments which have almost no analysis value, but must be evaluated by the observer. Other fragments are substantial parts of cell objects, which due to size or optical density, will be selected and reported as whole cell objects.
- reports such as DNA histograms are prepared, a selected fragment consisting of 75% of a whole cell object will be counted as a whole cell object having approximately 75% of the DNA contained by the original (pre-sliced) cell object.
- the histogram will include a cell object having smaller DNA mass value than should have been reported. Greater report accuracy can be achieved when the cell object attributes such as DNA mass of fractional cell objects can be corrected to represent whole cell objects before those attributes are used in preparing the final reports.
- the present invention provides a method and apparatus for automatically measuring on a per cell object basis the DNA mass and other morphological characteristics of the cell objects in a cell sample and automatically classifying each analyzed cell object based on the measured characteristics.
- the DNA mass and the other morphological attributes measured are compared with predetermined standard ranges to select single, whole cell objects and determine the class of the cell objects being analyzed. Both the DNA mass and cell class are displayed in an associated manner, and both are used in the preparation of final reports.
- the present invention also provides a method for increasing the measured DNA mass value of identified cell object fragments from tissue section samples to more accurately represent the DNA mass of the whole cell object from which the fragment was sectioned.
- a method of analyzing the cell objects of a cell sample includes automatically measuring predetermined attributes, including the DNA mass, of the cell objects and automatically classifying selected ones of the cell objects into one of a plurality of mutually exclusive categories.
- An image of the cell objects is then displayed in association with their assigned class to an operator for human review.
- the operator is enabled to change the classification of any displayed cell object and to "deselect" automatically selected cell objects.
- the automatically measured attributes are displayed to the operator during review.
- the cell objects of interest are cell nuclei and the automatically measured attributes of the cell objects, which remain selected or are newly selected by the operator during the review, are used to generate reports such as the DNA histograms.
- the automatic attribute measurement and automatic selection and classification of cell objects rapidly produces a first accurate screening of the cell objects, removing much operator time and tedium from the analysis.
- the apparatus in essence, automatically selects cell objects which are likely to have value in the assessment of possible cancers.
- the display of cell objects to the operator, along with their automatically assigned class, permits the operator to exercise seasoned judgement in the selection and classification operation and to change the automatically determined selection and classification.
- the cell objects remaining selected and in classes are likely to be more accurate than those produced by the operator alone, since the determinations are made on the basis of quantitative apparatus selection and qualitative operator review.
- the automatic selection of cell objects from a cell sample and their classification is based on a set of filters, each comprising a group of cell object attribute value ranges.
- value ranges are established for the following cell object attributes: area, perimeter, DNA mass and shape.
- the value ranges for the filters are dependent on the type of analysis to be performed and are established by the operator prior to the actual analysis of cells.
- the attribute range values for prostate tissue sections are disclosed.
- each filter being used to select one class of cell objects having a preestablished set of value ranges.
- the definition of what each class represents is left to the individual establishing the attribute value ranges.
- the definitions of the six ranges in an exemplary embodiment for analyzing prostate tissue sections are diploid, large diploid, irregular diploid, S-phase, tetraploid and massive DNA.
- an image of a field of the cell sample is digitized and the attributes of the cell objects of the digitized image are measured by the apparatus.
- the measured attributes are then compared with the stored filter-defining attribute value ranges to determine if a cell object observed in the image meets the definition of a class as established by the filter for that class.
- the cell object is said to be selected and it is assigned to the class into which it falls. Alternatively, when a cell does not fall within any class it is said to be not selected.
- a representation of the cell sample image is displayed to the operator.
- the cell objects which were assigned a class are displayed in association with indicia of that assigned class.
- each class of cell object is assigned a unique color and each cell object in a class is displayed with a perimeter having the unique color of its class.
- a review phase of the cell analysis the operator surveys the classified, displayed cell objects to determine if any assigned class should be changed or if a classified cell object should have its class removed.
- a computer mouse is used to move a cursor to a displayed cell object of interest and the cell object can be chosen for review by pressing a mouse key.
- the measured attributes of that cell object are displayed so that the operator can see the qualitative attributes of that cell object.
- the operator can change the class of the chosen cell object and thereby change its enhanced perimeter.
- the field can be approved.
- the measured attributes of the cell objects which remain in a class after the review phase are used to generate reports such as DNA mass histograms.
- Cell object samples taken from tissue sections may include cell object fragments which are selected and reported as whole cell objects while their DNA mass is less than the DNA mass of the cell object from which the fragment was sectioned.
- the measured DNA mass of such fragments can be corrected (increased) to reflect the DNA mass of their source whole cell object.
- cell object fragments which are likely to have analysis value are identified from their measured attributes and the cell object attributes are corrected to reflect the attributes of the whole cell objects from which the fragment was sectioned.
- the valuable cell object fragments are identified by comparing the measured cell object area with a threshold value determined from the known thickness of a tissue section from which the sample was taken. If the measured cell object area is larger than the threshold, the cell object is identified for correction since it is too large to be entirely included within the tissue section. A correction value is then determined from the measured area and the tissue section thickness and used to increase the measured DNA mass of the identified cell object fragment.
- the correction value C is determined from the equation: ##EQU1## where T is the tissue section thickness and R equals the square root of the measured area divided by ⁇ .
- the formula yields a correction value between 0 and 1 for identified cell objects, which value is divided into the measured DNA mass of the cell object to increase the DNA mass to a corrected value representing the whole cell object.
- the correction values can be calculated and the division performed as each identified cell object is classified, or it can be applied to a stored list of measured cell objects selected from the filter process discussed above.
- a correction value look up table can also be created before analysis begins. Such a correction value table stores predetermined calculation results from various combinations of tissue section thickness and measured cell object area. Similarly, the correction value table can be populated with correction values empirically determined from studies of tissue section cell object samples.
- the DNA mass correction function can be performed before cell objects are selected and classified for reports, or after such selection and classification.
- FIG. 1 is an isometric view of an apparatus embodying the present invention for analyzing cell samples
- FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the apparatus of FIG. 1;
- FIGS. 3-6 are DNA histograms produced by the apparatus of FIG. 1;
- FIG. 7 is a representation of an optical field of a cell sample
- FIG. 8 is a pictorial representation of the main menu options of FIG. 1;
- FIG. 9 is a pictorial representation of the analyze function of FIG. 8.
- FIG. 10 is a flow diagram of the classify function shown in FIG. 9;
- FIG. 11 is a representation of an optical entity table stored for each optical entity of an observed sample
- FIG. 12 is a representation of a video screen presented during the review function of FIG. 10;
- FIG. 13 is a representation of the menu screen presented during the performance of the review function
- FIG. 14 is a representation of the filter menu screen shown during the set filter function of FIG. 8;
- FIG. 15 is an edge view of a tissue section cell object sample
- FIG. 16 is a top view of the tissue section sample of FIG. 15.
- FIG. 17 is a flow diagram of a DNA mass correction function.
- the invention is embodied in a method and apparatus for automatically analyzing "cell objects" which term is used to be generic to cells such as cells taken from tumors or the like, and which are checked for their DNA content and also to be generic to non-biological objects such as plastic or glass spheres.
- the cell objects of interest are cell nuclei.
- the present invention is useful for study not only of ploidy analysis but also can be used to analyze Pap smear cells, monoclonol antibodies and other infectious diseases which can be diagnosed by DNA probes.
- the Preferred Embodiment described herein is used to analyze tissue section biological specimens which are examined on a microscope slide.
- the principles taught however relate also to other sample collection methods such as cell aspiration and to other means for examining cells such as a flow cytometer.
- FIG. 3 shows a normal DNA mass histogram having cell number versus mass distribution for healthy, non-dividing cells. The number of cells is provided on the ordinate axis and their DNA nuclear mass on the abscissa.
- the cell population shown in FIG. 3 is not dividing and the DNA content peaks around a normal peak G 0 /G 1 which is the diploid DNA amount of 7.18 picograms per cell. This relative mass of DNA is labelled as 1 to normalize the abscissa of the histogram.
- FIG. 3 shows a normal DNA mass histogram having cell number versus mass distribution for healthy, non-dividing cells. The number of cells is provided on the ordinate axis and their DNA nuclear mass on the abscissa.
- the cell population shown in FIG. 3 is not dividing and the DNA content peaks around a normal peak G 0 /G 1 which is the diploid DNA amount of 7.18 picograms per cell. This relative mass of DNA is labelled as 1 to normalize the abscissa of the
- the disclosed embodiment automatically determines a cell class from measured DNA content and other morphological features of cell objects and provides this cell category information to the expert as an aid to his or her analysis.
- the DNA histograms of the type shown in FIGS. 3 through 6 are extremely valuable in the histological evaluation of both suspected and actual cancers. Given their value, it is important that the data from which the histograms are generated is accurate and can be produced at a reasonable cost so that these techniques are widely available.
- FIG. 7 is a representation of a portion of a disordered collection of cell objects as seen in an optical image of a cell sample.
- the representation of FIG. 7 includes five optical entities numbered 110 through 114.
- An optical entity in this description, is a viewable item having a common boundary filled with levels of contrast so that it can be distinguished from the image background.
- An optical entity may comprise a single cell object fragment, a single whole cell object or overlapped combinations of whole and fragmentary cell objects. The cell object fragments are particularly prevalent in cell samples taken from sectioned tissue where the slicing necessary to prepare the section cuts many cell objects into fragments.
- the optical entities of FIG. 7 are made up of whole cell nuclei and fragments of cell nuclei. When these optical entities are to be evaluated manually, an evaluator selects which of the optical entities should be included in the final tabulation such as the histograms of FIGS. 3 through 6.
- Entity 110 is relatively round and appears to have sufficient density (contrast) to be a whole single cell object, and will probably be selected for analysis as a diploid cell by the evaluator.
- Entity 111 may be interpreted as a single elongated cell object of sufficient density for evaluation, however, it may actually be two cell objects 116 and 117, lying partially one on top of the other, to give the appearance of a single cell object. Should the evaluator select entity 111 as a single cell object, when in fact it is two cell objects, the data will show a single cell object (a count of one on the histogram) which has a DNA mass of approximately twice the diploid amount. Thus, the selection of optical entity 111 may result in incorrect data.
- entity 113 may be interpreted as two overlapping cell objects and not counted by an evaluator. However, entity 113 may be a deformed tetraploid cell object in which case, the selection of optical entity 113 would be valuable to a final report. It can be seen from FIG. 7, that the selection of cell objects which are likely to provide accurate analysis information is a difficult task when only the optical image is available.
- the present invention automates cell sample evaluation including cell object selection and classification by the apparatus shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, functioning in accordance with new operational methods.
- the system is a computerized image analysis apparatus designed to measure a number of cell object features and parameters from their image on a typical glass slide.
- the apparatus includes a sophisticated digital image processing system which performs quantitative analysis on individual cells for nuclear DNA content as well as measurement of other nuclear features.
- FIG. 1 shows an apparatus embodying the present invention which is generally identified by a numeral 10.
- Apparatus 10 comprises an optical microscope 12 which may be any conventional type, but in this embodiment is a Riechart Diastar.
- An optical camera module 14 is mounted on the microscope 12 to enhance optically a magnified image of a cell sample viewed with microscope 12.
- the optical camera module 14 includes at least one television camera which generates a standard NTSC compatible signal representative of the field of view of microscope 12.
- An image processing system 28 (FIG. 2) is connected to the camera module 14 to receive the NTSC signal and to store a cell object pixel array therein.
- the image processor 28 is connected to a computer 32 which in the present embodiment, is an INTEL 301, Model 386 computer, for the processing of the pixel array.
- Computer 32 which is shown in greater detail in FIG. 2 includes a system bus 34 Connected to the image processor 28.
- An 80386 microprocessor 36 is connected to the system bus 34.
- a random access memory 38 and a read-only memory 40 are also connected to system bus 34 for the storage and information.
- a disk controller 40 is connected by a local bus 44 to a Winchester disk drive 46 and to a floppy disk drive 48 for secondary information storage.
- a video conversion board 50 in this embodiment an EGA board having 256K bytes of memory, is connected to the system bus 34 to control an instruction monitor 52 connected to the EGA board 50.
- a keyboard processor 54 is connected to system bus 34 to interpret signals from a keyboard 56.
- An interactive computer mouse 20 is also connected to bus 34 via a mouse interface 23.
- a printer 58 is connected to the system bus 34 for generating paper copies of information generated by computer 32.
- An X-Y image field board 60 is connected to the system bus 34 and to a slide holder of the microscope 12 to sense the relative position of slide 62 with respect to a microscope objective 64. Included is a Y position sensor 66 and an X position sensor 68. The Y position sensor 66 is connected via a communication path 70 to the X-Y board 60 and the X position sensor 68 is connected via a communication path 72 to the X-Y board 60.
- the microscope 12 also includes an eye piece 76, in optical alignment with the objective 64 for the magnification of light forming the image of a cell sample on slide 62.
- a pathologist When using the apparatus 10, a pathologist first collects a cell sample which may be in the form of a tissue section made from frozen or paraffinized prostate tissue. Such a cell sample will include both whole cell nuclei and cell nuclei fragments, both of which are referred to as cell objects herein. Alternatively, the cell sample may be a cell preparation of the type taken by aspirating the contents of a cyst or tumor. The cells of the cell sample are placed on slide 62 and fixed thereon. The fixed cell sample is then prepared by, for example, the Feulgen staining technique to enhance cell object features.
- the microscope slide 62 is then placed on the carrying stage of microscope 12 and the objective 64 is focused thereon.
- a portion of the light from the objective 64 travels through a beam splitting mirror 80 to eye piece 12 where it may be viewed by an observer.
- the beam splitting mirror 80 conveys the remainder of the light from objective 64 to camera module 14, which generates an NTSC signal representing the image and applies that signal to image processor 28.
- Image processor 28 digitizes the image received from camera unit 14 and stores the digitized image in a frame buffer of the image processor.
- the contents of the frame buffer are presented to an image monitor 30, which displays a field of the cell sample.
- the digitized image field is also presented to computer 32 over system bus 34 for analysis thereof.
- the operator When the apparatus is in operation, the operator has a number of options or functions which can be chosen to acquire and process data from a cell sample.
- the program setting forth the functions is menu driven and provides on instruction monitor 52 a main menu of options as shown in FIG. 8.
- the main menu 120 consists of five main screen functions including a label function 122, a calibrate function 124, a help function 126, an exit function 128 and an analyze function 130.
- a function is selected from the menu of FIG. 8, as well as other menus presented to the operator, by operator interaction with mouse 20.
- the menus are presented on monitor 52 to the operator who moves a cursor thereon by means of mouse 20 and selects a desired function by pressing a mouse button e.g., 21 when the cursor is on the desired function.
- Mouse interactive menu selection is well known in the art.
- the label function 122 allows a user to enter information regarding the patient identification, accession number, and a DNA conversion number.
- the DNA conversion number is the expected DNA mass for a diploid cell. Initially, the DNA conversion number is set by default to a standard 7.18 picograms for normal human cells. However, the apparatus may be used to measure non-human cells and the index may be changed to the number desired. The DNA index number must be set to a value greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to 99.99.
- calibrate function 124 permits the proper adjustment of the apparatus to assure accurate measurements.
- light levels are compared to known standard light levels for appropriate adjustment and the DNA mass of a number of standard cells is determined so that the DNA mass of the cell objects in the cell sample can be accurately determined.
- the calibration of apparatus of the type shown in FIG. 1 is described in detail in U.S. Pat. No. 4,741,043 to Bacus.
- the help function 126 of FIG. 8 provides explanation to the operator to aid in the use of the apparatus 10.
- the exit function 128 permits the system to leave the present main menu function.
- the analyze function 130 is performed to specifically analyze the cell objects of a sampled field of cell objects.
- the menu 142 for the analyze function is shown in greater detail in FIG. 9. It is in the analyze function of FIG. 9 that actual cell object attributes such as DNA mass are measured and recorded for reporting purposes.
- the analyze function 142 includes a number of sub-functions which are employed to improve the accuracy of cell object attribute measurement.
- One sub-function is the check light function 148 which calculates the light level of the current field image to assure accuracy of adjustments.
- a boundary function 156 allows the operator to set the threshold which must be achieved between the image background and the contrast of an optical entity before that entity is recognized.
- Scale function 154 permits the adjustment of the horizontal scale of DNA histograms shown on the monitor 52.
- the set thickness function 146 is used to provide certain DNA mass corrections and is discussed below.
- the analyze function also includes a help function 158 to provide assistance to the operator and a main function 162 which permits the return to the main menu from the analysis menu 142.
- the classify function 144 and set filters function 150 are the two most closely related functions to the actual evaluation and measurement of cell object attributes.
- the set filters function allows the operator to establish ranges of predetermined measurable parameters which are used to interpret the attributes of cell objects measured in the classify function.
- the ranges are set by the operator and define which cell objects will be automatically selected for reporting and what classes of cell objects are to be automatically assigned to the selected cell objects.
- the filter ranges are, as discussed below, compared to automatically measured cell object attributes and cell objects will be selected and classified or not, depending on their similarity to the established ranges. The setting of ranges, the automatic measurement of cell objects and the comparison of measurements and filter ranges, replaces the tedious cell object selection and classification by human operators.
- the filter menu 171 of FIG. 14 is displayed on the analysis screen of monitor 52.
- the filter menu 171 includes an options field 170 and a filter parameter field 172.
- Options field 170 sets forth particular functions which can be performed in the set filters function and the parameters field 172 identifies the value ranges of four cell object attributes which are used to automatically place a given cell object into one of six classes identified as class 1 through class 6.
- the filter menu is initially presented to the operator on monitor 52, the four attribute value ranges under each class heading are all set to zero.
- the options listed in the options field 170 are primarily used to establish ranges of values in the parameter field 172 and to define the use of those parameters.
- the "Load” option 175 permits the operator to specify the name of a pre-stored file of filter parameters which are read from memory and used to populate the filter parameter field 172.
- the "New” option 176 permits the operator to directly enter ranges of values into parameter field 172 for each cell object attribute in each class 1 through 6.
- the “Save” field 177 permits the saving of the values written into parameter field 172.
- the option “Save As” is similar to the option “Save” 177, except that the saved set of parameters can be given a particular name to aid in later recall.
- the "Delete” function 179 is used to delete all of the parameters entered in parameter field 172 and the "Filter Off” field 180 enables the use of the classify function 144 without any preassigned filter parameters.
- the "Help” function 181 provides user information and the "Exit” function 182 allows the user the return to the analysis menu 142.
- the parameter field 172 includes filter definitions for each of six classes of cell objects.
- the filter for each cell object class comprises a range of values assigned to each of four cell object attributes listed below that class designation.
- the four attributes for each class are the area of optical entity in square micrometers, the shape of the optical entity, its DNA mass in picograms and the optical density of that optical entity.
- the shape factor in the value ranges is determined by dividing the square of the perimeter of the optical entity by the area of that entity. Thus, a round shape has shape value of 4 ⁇ and the value becomes larger the "less round" the measured object is.
- the filter parameters placed in the class definition field 172 depend on the particular location from which the cell sample was taken e.g., breast and the particular type of cell sample e.g., tissue section.
- the ranges of values shown in FIG. 14 have been found useful in the evaluation of prostate tissue section cell samples.
- class 1 identifies small diploid cell objects which are substantially round
- class 2 identifies larger diploid cell objects which are also substantially round
- class 3 identifies S phase cell objects which are of regular shape
- class 4 identifies small diploid cell objects of a more irregular shape than class 1
- class 5 identifies tetraploid cell objects
- class 6 identifies cell objects having large amounts of DNA.
- the operator can move to the classify function 144 in which cell objects are automatically selected by the apparatus 10 in accordance with the established filter values.
- the cell object is not selected for classification.
- the flow chart of the classify function 144 is shown in FIG. 10.
- the digital image of a field of optical entities on slide 62 is analyzed by microprocessor 36 (FIG. 2).
- the digitized image is scanned (block 191) until an optical entity is found by the difference in contrast values between the entity and the image background.
- Microprocessor 36 then proceeds to the measure attribute step 193 where it identifies the perimeter of the found optical entity and counts both the number of pixels on the perimeter and the number of pixels within that perimeter to determine the perimeter and area of the entity found.
- microprocessor 36 computes the DNA mass of the found optical entity from the previous calibration data and the density of the cell object and forms a sum of the optical density of the entity.
- an optical entity table (FIG.
- the optical entity table for an entity includes its area, shape, class, DNA mass, optical density, perimeter length and location information.
- the location information of an entity consists of the X and Y coordinates of the field containing the entity, as determined from the X position sensor 68, the Y position sensor 66 and the X-Y board 60 and the horizontal and vertical maxima and minima of the entity perimeter as determined from the digital representation of the field.
- optical entity attributes are accumulated and stored, they are compared (step 197) with the value ranges established in the filter setting function 150 (FIG. 9) in order to classify the entity.
- the optical entity attributes of an entity are compared to the six sets of filter ranges 1 through 6 in sequence. When the optical entity is found to be within a class, the entity is assigned to the found class and no further comparison with the ranges of other classes is undertaken. The following is an example of comparison for an optical entity having an area 80, shape 14, DNA mass 7.18 and density 0.4.
- the exemplary entity attributes will be first compared to ranges of class 1, where no match will be found because the entity area is too large.
- the entity attributes are next compared with the ranges of class 2 where a match is found.
- the entity is then assigned to class 2 and further comparisons with class ranges for this entity do not occur, even though this entity might fit into more than one class.
- the entity is determined in step 198 to not be a useful diagnostic entity and the control program returns the find unmeasured entity step 191 to identify a new optical entity.
- the identified class is stored (step 199) in the optical entity table (FIG. 11) of the found entity.
- the flow proceeds to a block 321 to determine if DNA correction is needed. For the present example, the DNA correction, which is discussed below, is not needed and the program returns to block 191 to search for another optical entity.
- the review function 201 begins with the display (FIG. 12) on image monitor 30 of the optical field presently being reviewed.
- the displayed field is enhanced by drawing a line around each optical entity which was assigned one of the classes 1 through 6 (step 197, FIG. 10).
- the line around the perimeter is called perimeter enhancement and indicates that the included optical entity has been selected and classified. All non-selected optical entities in the field are displayed without perimeter enhancements.
- the perimeter enhancement for a selected optical entity consists of a line around the selected optical entity, having a color which is uniquely associated with the class assigned to that optical entity.
- the association of classes 1 through 6 and colors is represented in FIG. 14 by a rectangle, e.g., 183 next to the designation of each class, e.g., class 1.
- rectangles 183 through 188 are shown in association with classes 1 through 6 respectively.
- the color of the rectangles 183 through 188 is described in Table 1.
- the encirclement of an optical entity by a colored line provides the operator with a direct indication of the class assigned to that optical entity, but does not obscure the optical entity from view.
- the review image represented in FIG. 12 includes five optical entities 250 through 254 of which entities 250 and 254 do not have perimeter enhancements, while entities 251, 252 and 253 are encircled by perimeter enhancements 261, 262 and 263 respectively.
- entity 250 is a cell object fragment having DNA mass of less than 6.47 picograms and that entity 254 has a DNA mass between 7.97 and 12.91 picograms, but is too irregular (shape greater than 16) to be an S phase cell.
- the entities 250 and 251 were not selected to be in a class and are not reproduced with enhanced perimeters.
- Entity 251 is produced on display 30 and represented in FIG.
- the review function is an operator interactive operation, the menu for which is represented in FIG. 13.
- the operator can select a help function 204 or an exit function 206 which are substantially similar to the previously described help and exit functions. Should the operator select the exit function 206, classifications assigned to the optical entities displayed (FIG. 12) are retained and the measured attributes of those selected entities will be used to produce final reports such as the DNA histogram. If the operator feels that further review of the field is desirable, he or she selects the "choose entity" function 208 which produces a mouse cursor 210 on the field viewing screen 30 represented in FIG. 12.
- the mouse cursor 210 is placed on an optical entity e.g., 253 (either previously classified or previously not classified) in question and that entity is chosen for review by depressing a key 21 on the mouse 20.
- entity table FIG. 11
- the display attributes function 214 produces on the review screen of FIG. 12, an attributes field 215 which displays the previously measured and stored attributes of the optical entity chosen for review.
- the attributes displayed in field 215 provide additional information to the operator on which decisions can be made.
- Change class function 212 is used to provide this change.
- the selection of the change class function 212 displays a numerical listing 217 (FIG. 12) of the numbers 1 through 0.
- the operator can place the mouse cursor 210 on any of the numbers 1 through 6 or 0 and press button 21 to enact a change of classification. Selecting one of the numbers 1 through 6 changes the classification of the chosen entity to the new class number. If the class number 0 is identified from the list 217, a 0 is written into the class location of the entity table.
- the new class number (or zero) is stored in the associated entity table (FIG. 11) and, the colored perimeter of the selected entity is changed to a color representing the newly assigned class or is changed to a dark green indicating a deselected entity.
- the operator may observe two overlapped cell objects which appear to have been considered during automatic classification as a single optical entity.
- the operator can move the cursor to select such an entity.
- the cut entity function 216 can then be selected in which the operator, using known techniques, separates the selected optical entity into two parts for analysis purposes.
- the control program returns to the flow chart of FIG. 10 to reevaluate the cut entity as two entities in accordance with the operator's direction.
- control returns to the review menus 201 in the choose function 208.
- the newly cut entity is then displayed, if appropriate, with enhanced perimeters around either portion of the entity.
- the operator returns to the exit function 206 which transfers control back to the analysis menu 142 (FIG. 9).
- the operator can select the report function 160 to prepare reports such as a DNA histogram.
- a tissue section sample is made by "hardening” and “embedding” a tissue sample removed from a patient, perhaps by immersing the tissue sample in a fixative like formalin, and then by allowing it to be permeated by paraffin.
- a fixative like formalin to be permeated by paraffin.
- thin e.g., 5 micron slices are cut from the tissue mass. The act of cutting thin slices, which in many cases are thinner than the major dimensions of the cell objects to be observed, creates many cell object fragments.
- FIG. 15 is an edge view of a tissue section 300 of thickness T showing a plurality of cell objects 301 through 305.
- Tissue section 300 has a top surface 310 formed by one slicing operation and a bottom surface 311 formed by another slicing operation.
- FIG, 16 is a top view of the same tissue section which represents the view of FIG. 15 presented to analysis apparatus.
- the solid line cell objects and cell object fragments are those remaining for analysis and the dotted lines above and below surfaces 310 and 311 represent the portions of cell objects which have been sliced away by tissue sectioning.
- Cell objects 301 and 302 represent small fragments of relatively small cell objects.
- Cell objects 303 and 304 represent whole cell objects and cell object 305 represents a large cell object with relatively small top and bottom portions sliced away.
- fragments 301 and 302 will not be selected during analysis, since they are so small and lack sufficient density and DNA mass to match any of the filters of FIG. 14.
- Cell objects 303 and 304 are presumably whole diploid cell objects and will be selected by the automated process.
- Cell object fragment 305 which is assumed to represent a tetraploid cell, will be selected by the filters but its measured DNA mass value will be less than its unfragmented value. That is, the DNA content of the sliced away dotted line portions will not be included in its DNA mass. Thus, reporting fragment 305 as a whole cell object on the DNA mass histogram, will cause a point to appear with less mass than it should have.
- cell objects 303 and 304 have measured areas of 19 square microns and are selected as class 1 cell objects and that cell object 305 has a measured area of 50 square microns, a DNA mass of 11.7 picograms and will be selected as a class 3 cell object.
- the present embodiment includes methods for correcting the DNA mass values of cell object fragments, such as fragment 305 to more accurately represent their unfragmented DNA mass. Both the need for DNA mass correction, and the amount of correction is dependent on the thickness of the tissue section which was used to provide the cell sample being analyzed.
- the tissue section thickness is established in the apparatus by performing the set thickness function 146 of the analysis menu of FIG. 9.
- the tissue section 300 has a thickness T of 5 microns, so that the value 5 microns is entered in the set tissue thickness function 146.
- FIG. 17 A flow diagram of the DNA mass correction operation is shown in FIG. 17 which is an adjunct to the classify flow diagram of FIG. 10.
- the classify function is performed as shown in FIG. 10 and when a cell object such as the cell object fragment 301 is not selected for classification, the flow proceeds from block 198 to block 191, as previously discussed.
- the assigned class is written into the entity table (FIG. 11) of that cell object and the flow proceeds to block 321 to determine if correction is to be invoked.
- flow proceeds to the correction function of FIG. 17.
- the correction function begins in block 320 (FIG. 17) where the measured area of the cell object is compared to a threshold value determined from the tissue section thickness.
- the threshold value is the area of a circle having a diameter equal to the tissue section thickness.
- threshold of block 320 is approximately 20 square microns. Block 320 is performed to identify large cell fragments such as cell object fragment 305, which need correction and to not identify for correction smaller whole cell objects such as 303, which do not need correction.
- step 320 determines that the threshold of 20 square microns is not exceeded and the flow proceeds to block 191 without correcting the DNA mass value of whole cell object 303.
- cell object fragment 305-is classified it will be placed in class 3 (see example assumptions) and block 320 will determine that the measured area (50 square microns) is larger than the 20 square micron threshold.
- a measured area greater than the threshold indicates that the entire cell object is unlikely to exist in the 5 micron thickness, and that DNA mass correction is needed.
- a block 322 is performed to determine a correction value for the cell object. The correction value is determined from the measured area of the cell object and the thickness of the tissue section sample.
- the correction value C is calculated from equation 1: ##EQU2## where T is the tissue section thickness and R equals the square root of the measured area divided by ⁇ . Given the 50 square micron measured area of cell object 305, R is approximately equal to 3.99 microns yielding a correction value C of 0.817.
- the measured cell object mass is divided thereby in block 324 to increase the DNA mass to a corrected value. In the present embodiment, the measured mass of cell object 305 (11.7 picograms) is increased to 14.32 picograms in block 324.
- the corrected mass value which more accurately represents the mass of cell object 305 before sectioning, is then recorded for use in the preparation of reports such as DNA histograms From block 324, the flow proceeds to block 191 (FIG. 10).
- a correction value was calculated for each cell object fragment identified to have an area greater than a predetermined threshold.
- the equation need not be performed for each identified cell object. Instead, the equation can be performed for many hypothetical combinations of tissue section thickness and measured cell object area and the results (the value C) stored in a look up table. This table can then be accessed directly from the tissue section thickness and cell object area to speed processing. Additionally, other methods for populating the correction value look up table could be used. For example, empirical data correlating measured cell object fragment area and the actual DNA mass of whole cell objects may be obtained from tests and used to populate the correction value look up table.
- cell objects were selected and assigned to classes before correction of DNA mass was performed.
- the DNA mass correction of FIG. 17 could have been performed before selection.
- the function performed by FIG. 17 could be entered after block 195 (FIG. 10) with a return from the correction function to block 197.
- classes would be assigned to identified cell objects on the basis of corrected cell object mass values.
- Some cell evaluation systems measure DNA in relative terms and assign cell objects a relative DNA index value.
- the present invention can be used to correct any DNA mass measurement value, be it specific mass in picograms or a relative mass value such as a DNA index value.
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